Deforming modernity : the experience of horror in Italian literature
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation studies horror as a form of experience and its aesthetics in works of modern Italian literature not belonging to the horror genre. My phenomenology of horror detaches it from the monstrous, the supernatural, and gore, to reconnect it to lived experience and show how it can erupt into a life despite modernity's claims of safety and control. I argue that horror is underpinned by contextual and contingent elements: a corpse is not horrifying for an autopsist at work. Similarly, depending on factors such as gender, traversing a dark alleyway can be horrifying. Featured are works from Giacomo Leopardi, Carlo Michelstaedter, Luigi Pirandello, Curzio Malaparte, Primo Levi, Anna Maria Ortese, and Giuseppe Berto.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Capra, Andrea |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Wittman, Laura |
| Thesis advisor | Wittman, Laura |
| Thesis advisor | Denson, Shane |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Harrison, Robert Pogue |
| Thesis advisor | Harrison, Thomas |
| Degree committee member | Denson, Shane |
| Degree committee member | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Degree committee member | Harrison, Robert Pogue |
| Degree committee member | Harrison, Thomas |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French & Italian |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Andrea Capra. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of French & Italian. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qq471ws5682 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Andrea Capra
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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